Chandigarh, Aug. 27 -- Haryana's "eyebrow raising" below poverty line (BPL) list, expanded generously by the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government before the October 2024 assembly elections, is now undergoing a course correction, it has emerged.

The Nayab Singh Saini-led BJP government on Tuesday admitted in the assembly during the ongoing monsoon session that till March 31, 2025 the total number of "families in the BPL" category was 52,37,671.

But after the "clean-up" exercise was started in April following doubts were raised in political circles over the sudden rise in the number of BPL families ahead of the assembly election, the government has removed 10,44,002 families from the BPL list in the last five months. Now, the total numbe...